The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A GHINAMAN recently SCuJ iLlc 4piAOnAiS btAO-
gram to a Pacific coast railway official: Il ship
pee you two car load hog. No catchee pass
Nhattee matter. An Fook.
GREEyFIELD, Mass. having voted not to grant
liquor licenses, its thirsty citizens are now cult
waiting taste for hard cider. which is said to be
literally flowing into town.
A NEW ORLEANS BANKER, who was fond of
using Latin to enrich his conversation, was
asked one evening by young lady in hotel
where he had been. oh! Just outside in the
cupsadore, walking pro and con, he replied.
EXCESSIVE ROPE JUMPING has already begun
to send the little ones prematurely to their
graves The death of a girl in Pittsburg last
week was ascribed to it, and also is the pre-
carious condition of another child in the same
city.
AN ADVERTISEMENT in the shape Of what
seemed to be barrels filed with Treasury notes
in the window of a Providence, R. l., store, at
tracted the attention of a thief, who broke tne
windows captured and got away with two $50
notes
A CURIOUS INCIDENT in police court annals oc-
Cured in Chicago. A policeman arrested his
own son among some small boys who were
caught playing pool at night, and balled MN
out after q little conference in the family resi-
dence.
JOSIAH WHITNEY, a very active citizen OF
Nokomis, H., has just celebrated his 91st birth
day. The entire W HlIney FANNY dSSeLnOleu OA
that occasion and gave the venerable head OF
the house birthday cake of ninety lone layers,
each child grandchild and reat-grandchild con-
tributing a layer
ANOTHER NIsER has passed away He lived in
town near Denver, Col, and, as is not gem
orally the case, left will bequeathing his entire
fortune The latter can't be found, however,
and the heirs are busily engaged night ana day
in ransacking his late home ia hopes of recover
ing it, estimated at between So, 600 and S5ooOO
THE possibility of Gen. Gordon still being alive
is still discussed occasionally in London. The
academy lately gave space to o letter from
Trieste, reporting the testimony OF youth 10
the effect that it was Turkish soldier who re-
sembed Gen Gordon that was Killed As 10
where Gen. Gordon, if alive, has been all this
time nothing is said
AN English lady has hit upon a novel mode Of
obtaining jubilee subscriptions. She asked her
laundress TO contribute. The woman said that
she had large family end could not, so the lady
informed her that n tTifie would be deducted
each week from the washing bill, and that if she
were not prepared to agree to this the washing
would be taken from her.
FROM the roofs of houses and other command
ing eminencas people in Burlington, Vt. watched
through field-glasses last Friday great COM
motion on Lake Champlain, about four miles
from there; Some say it was a squall and
water spout, others some kind of large fish.
while one old captain Stoutly maintains that 1t
was only flock of geese.
Two Boston BOYS ran away from home last
week, carrying with them large sum of money
| and a couple of Notwithstanding revolvers.
They got as far as New York when a couple of
| other lads took their pistols and money from
| them. Without further desire to look for bears
or Indians they were then in meek mood anxious
| to get back home. Police officers took charge
of them.
THE Queen Regent of Spain is a most ener-
| getic and skilled needlewoman and as her even
! ings are exempt from state ceremonies during
her deep mourning, Dona Christina spends most
| of her spare time in embroidery. She has just
| finished a magnificent flag for a new ironclad
named after her, the Reina ltegente, the stand
| ard being over eleven yards long and six and a
| half wide
| SAYS an advertisement in a medical journal:
skeletons have ruled firm and active through
out the year, with prices Unchanged. We have
been able to supply the demand for the common
varieties promptly, but the finer grades were
scarce, and orders for deformities could not
| always be filed at once In this regard the
market is still unchanged, although our broker
| in Paris has orders to buy everything offered at
| the usual rates"
ROYAL YACHTS cost high in England. The
original cost of the Victoria and Albert was
about e136OOO, and she has since had spent on
| her over $500 900. The Osborne's original cost
was about e10600 and she has had about el12-
900 expended on her. The Alberta's original
| cost was &Z1 900, with subsequent expenditure
of f68,OO0. The Elfin's original cost was 5000,
| the subsequent expenditure being over $4,000.
| Besides these interesting items the annual pay
of the officers and crews of the royal yachts is
| close upon t50,000l
SOME ONE has thus figured on the ingredients
! of ton of coal Besides gas, ton of gas coal
will yield 1900 pounds of COKE 20 gallons of
ammonia water and 40 pounds of coal tar. De-
structive distillation of the coal tar gives 696
| pounds of pitch, II pounds of creosote, IA
| pounds of heavy oils, 80 pounds of naphtha yell
| low, SO pounds Of naphthane, 415 pounds of
naphthol, 225 pounds of alizarne, "a pounds of
| solvent naphtha, 1.5 pounds of phenol 1.2
pounds of aurine IL pounds of analine, or
pound of toludine, 0.46 pound of anthracine and
| 09 pound of toluene.
SOME remarkable work has been done in the
way of preparing typewriter copies of the tes-
timony at the Standard Oil conspiracy trial
now going on before Judge Raight, at Buffalo,
N. Y. Over 200 pages of evidence have been
taken during the week, which means 40 900
words. -Four typewriter copies are made for
the attorneys engaged in the case and when
court opens each dav the testimony of the pre-
ceding day is always ready for their use Sat
urday even better work was DONE and when
| court convened at O'Clock, the printed evi-
dence of the case up to adjournment at 1890
an hour and half before, was lying Oh the
lawyers table,
DAIRY OOItNNALls III MS duUODlOgIsaDDG, re-
lates the following of the author of The
Pleasures of Hope" Campbell had mentioned
that some pigeons which frequented his house
deserted the place soon after his wife fell in and
have never since returned. On the day Of her
death, in the place of the pigeons which had
flown away, and which were blue or gray or
some such color, came two pigeons perfectly
milk white and settled on her bedroom window
After remaining there some time-much longer
than is usual with birds where there are persons
moving to aud fro IN a room-they also flew of.
She expressed aiwish that they should return.
But although cannot have them, have you,
she said, turning 90 her husband. In minute
or two afterward she died"
THE French are discussing question in Lon.
don. Frenchman in London, from the fire.
quent pawning of his watch, learned that
pawnbrokers test the watch by touching an
acid to the knob He inherited 1900 francs
and Immediately went to Geneva, where he
ordered 300 Watches the cases of copper (heavily
gilt and the knobs of pure god, They cost him
40 francs each, He went TO Lond. n. and in a few
days pawned the 200 watches. The pawnbrokers
tested the knobs, and advanced him 90 francs on
each, gain of over 30 francs on the cost. Then
he walked about the streets and dropped the
pawn tickets here and there and the persons
who found them, all being dishonest, went next
day and redeemed the watches. Thus the pawn
brokers lost nothing, and the dishonest finders
OF the tickets paid 20 francs for 40 franc